Jews need reassurance right now that the agenda represented by the renewed civil liberties movement in Britain is for them, writes Keith Kahn-Harris. They represent a powerful resource for change, but fear is holding them back....

This is very very exicting: finally it looks like someone has produced the kind of playful, semi-ironic, radical, avant-garde Jewish metal I always dreamed of. Black Shabbis is a project of multi-instrumentalist Jamie Saft and is out on John Zorn's......

This week's Forward has an article about an Atlanta-based 'Jewish-inflected punk rock group' called Can Can.The band itself is not that interesting (and the singer, Patrick A, is the only Jewish member), but there are some interesting quotes about (non-Israeli)......

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about Dan Nelson's book 'All Known Metal Bands'.  A comment on my post alerted me to criticism of the book on the Invisible Oranges blog (which I usually read but haven't for a few weeks): On one hand, this would surely make great coffee table reading. On the oth...

Boing Boing has a preview and write-up of a documentary film called Heavy Load: A Film About Happiness which profiles the eponymous band. Heavy Load has members who are learning disabled - the drummer appears to have Downs Syndrome. They......

...since I last posted. Life is hectic as ever. Anyway, here's four miscellaneous items: I had an article published in the Jerusalem Post entitled 'Is Britain Good for the Jews'  (my answer: yes with some reservations). The comments on my article on the website are hysterical. I 'DJed' last nig...

Metal Inquisition has a fun overview of Christian metal. Given the generally sarcastic tone of the blog (which by the way I love), the overview is surprisingly fair-minded, giving due props to Believer and admitting that SOME Mortification and Tourniquet......

The Deciblog surprisingly goes all Metal Jew on your ass in a post entitled 'Don't Bogart the Charoset': Let me tell you about my friend Dan. He’s a semi-observant Jew, but he also worships at the altar of Cliff Burton.......

So tomorrow is Purim, which for those who don't known, celebrates the survival of the Jews from an attempted massacre in Persia, with drunkenness, dressing-up, skits and general revelry. In honour of the festival, here's some Jewish and some metal......

The otherwise mildly amusing Cheesy Metal site yesterday posted this drivel. I guess it's supposed to be funny and to annoy po-faced feminists (if not, then the guy is even more of a jerk).  But the moron who wrote this crap doesn't understand that just insulting someone isn't necessarily cleve...